Strange Fruit (no intro) - Stanford Talisman spring show 2009

"Woyaya": Talisman spring show 2009.
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=8A295F139E91E8D6

Abel Meeropol, a white, Jewish schoolteacher in New York, wrote "Strange Fruit" in 1938 and shared the piece with Billie Holiday. Popularized by Holiday, the song expresses the horror of lynchings in the Jim Crow South and was used as a weapon in anti-lynching campaigns. "Strange Fruit" has haunting chords, a diminishing heartbeat, and juxtaposes the pastoral scenery of the South with the ugliness of racist violence.

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• Strange Fruit
• Billie Holiday
• Stanford Talisman
• a cappella
• African American music
• American South
• Jim Crow
• Abel Meeropol
• Woyaya

[diva2007jchoriki]

This is truly an amazing rendition of such an emotionally driven song!